• Cláudia Tarragô Candotti, Emanuelle Francine Detogni Schmit, Luiza Rampi Pivotto, Eduardo Gonçalves Raupp, Matias Noll, Adriane Vieira, and Jefferson Fagundes Loss.
• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Electronic address: claudia.candotti@ufrgs.br.
• Pain Manag Nurs. 2018 Aug 1; 19 (4): 415-423.

BackgroundThe BackPEI questionnaire was developed and validated just exclusively to evaluate children.AimsTo propose, validate, and test the reproducibility of an expanded version of the Back Pain and Body Posture Evaluation Instrument (BackPEI), originally designed to assess back pain in school-aged children, for use with adults.DesignValidation Study.MethodsFive questions from the original BackPEI were replaced, resulting in the revised instrument (BackPEI-A) containing 20 questions. Three experts checked the content validity of the revised instrument, and the reproducibility was tested by trialing the questionnaire with 154 adults.ResultsThe reproducibility data for the questions regarding pain intensity, analyzed using the Wilcoxon test and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), indicated that (a) there was no difference between the medians and (b) the answers were highly correlated, both for lower back (p = .574) (ICC = 0.908) and cervical (p = .968) (ICC = 0.865) pain. The reproducibility data for the remaining questions analyzed using the κ coefficient were classified as moderate (0.4 < κ ≤ 0.6) or very good (κ > 0.8).ConclusionThe BackPEI-A is a reproducible, valid, and reliable instrument for use in the evaluation of back and neck pain and their associated risk factors. The instrument also facilitates the evaluation of postural habits in activities of daily living in adults.Copyright © 2017 American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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